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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-02-21 12:25:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2022-02-21 12:25:28 +0000 |
| commit | e5389ef44a4a53f0694c75c4e3d2b9e64ac3ab2c (patch) | |
| tree | d35b6bb5cadbc2a260a65bc4ad2806b60d93489d /README | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 1.12. (diff) | |
| download | clzip-e5389ef44a4a53f0694c75c4e3d2b9e64ac3ab2c.tar.xz clzip-e5389ef44a4a53f0694c75c4e3d2b9e64ac3ab2c.zip | |
Adding upstream version 1.13.upstream/1.13
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -7,13 +7,14 @@ C++ compiler. Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of the 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov -chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format, chosen to maximize safety and -interoperability. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or -compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is -intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from -a data recovery perspective. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested -with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose -compressed format for unix-like systems. +chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format and provides a 3 factor integrity +checking to maximize interoperability and optimize safety. Lzip can compress +about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) or compress most files more than bzip2 +(lzip -9). Decompression speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. +Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 from a data recovery perspective. Lzip +has been designed, written, and tested with great care to replace gzip and +bzip2 as the standard general-purpose compressed format for unix-like +systems. For compressing/decompressing large files on multiprocessor machines plzip can be much faster than lzip at the cost of a slightly reduced compression @@ -72,7 +73,7 @@ filename.lz becomes filename filename.tlz becomes filename.tar anyothername becomes anyothername.out -(De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it; therefore clzip +(De)compressing a file is much like copying or moving it. Therefore clzip preserves the access and modification dates, permissions, and, when possible, ownership of the file just as 'cp -p' does. (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file permission bits S_ISUID and @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently used by lzip could be developed, and the resulting sequence could also be coded using the LZMA coding scheme. -Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm; fast +Clzip currently implements two variants of the LZMA algorithm: fast (used by option '-0') and normal (used by all other compression levels). The high compression of LZMA comes from combining two basic, well-proven @@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ been compressed. Decompressed is used to refer to data which have undergone the process of decompression. -Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright (C) 2010-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. |